It’s a three-, sometimes four-or-more-hour-long dinner, and this year, Joanna Gaines is savoring every last bite of it. Her new Thanksgiving collection for Magnolia welcomes the occasion with heirloom patterns, whimsically wrought brass, and playful ruffled ceramics that make an occasionally chaotic holiday not only curated, but comfortable, too.
On Joanna’s Thanksgiving table, heirloom candlesticks drip with extra-drippy twisting tapers over embroidered linens collected over the years. Among them, a few pretty new hand-painted floral plates are stacked unpretentiously beside the feast, ready for action. Before those plates return piled precariously high, handwritten name cards sit atop little sculptural apple-shaped holders to avoid confusion, but also so everyone knows you care.
Everyone’s clinking glasses filled with homemade fall sangria (Joanna says it starts with your driest red, apple juice, and brandy), passing green beans amandine and not just turkey, but herb-roasted turkey that, for the first time in years, everyone actually wants to eat. For dessert, pecan bars and pies are gobbled one by one from beneath a grand fluted dome set on humble wood.
Joanna isn’t buying all-new Thanksgiving decor. Take your time, pick the pretty things you don’t actually have yet (for me? A set of antique copper serving tongs), and let the presentation become part of the festivities.
The lineup’s thoughtful touches offer some food for thought: why not savor the getting ready as much as the gathering itself? These moments only come once a year. Shop 20 hosting essentials to soak in every prep step, good-fun argument, table-wide belly laugh, and extra helping of stuffing.
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